【With Sword】

Quality: Quest item.

Item Description: None, this item cannot be discarded, damaged, or dropped.

took out the saber that suddenly appeared in the backpack, and I kept looking back and forth,

But this prosaic saber has no hint of anything other than a name.

However, since the system gave me such a quest item, there must be a quest for it.

Hearing that there was no longer a big man scolding outside, I tiptoed my head to look at the situation, and there was indeed no figure of him in the village, probably because I had run out of patience and ran to upgrade.

That's just right, while you're away, I'll quickly find the kid just now and ask about it.

……

Five minutes later, I returned to my place with a look of surprise.

I couldn't find any trace of the kid in the big village, except for some houses that I couldn't get into, I looked at almost all the places I could think of in the village.

"Isn't it the big guy who ran away?"

This helpless self-talk is of course a joke, but it is true that there is no way to change the situation that cannot be found.

The quest can't be so vexatious, and since I can't find the kid, then I should go find other NPCs and see if there are any reliable clues.

Picking up an old lady who had just turned the corner in front of me, I went up and asked her about the saber and the child.

"The sword originally belonged to the exorcist couple in the village, but the couple both died in a demon eradication operation, leaving only a child and the grandfather who is the village chief to rely on each other." There are only a few plot clues in the old lady's mouth, and no matter how much she asks, she can only repeat it.

I asked the other NPCs in circles, and they only described the deeds of the husband and wife, and the rest of the things were only some boring narrations.

"In this way, it should be that I am not enough to trigger the quest clue", thinking so, the depressed mood has improved a lot.

"Hmph"

I was leaning on the waist-high fence and thinking, but I was attracted by the sound of a lovely pig, and turned my head to see a batch of first- and second-class white pigs that had just been brushed out on the edge of the village, and they were walking happily there.

The task is clueless, and it is a waste of time to dwell on it, and it is better to come early than to come by coincidence, just to take you under the knife!

I jumped out of the fence and hit a nearby pig's head with a stick, and after the upgrade, I could actually deal more than 10 damage, while the white pig's counter-attack could only scratch me for less than 5 damage.

After all, there is still some loss, in order to save some of my own health, I looked at the fence at hand, and I wanted to take a shortcut with a little cleverness in my head.

It turned out that my brain was still good, I turned around and jumped back into the fence after another attack, and after entering the village area, the white pig had no target, and could only walk back without a head, and at this time I jumped out again to repeat the attack just now, and the white pig hurriedly turned back but could only turn around in vain.

"Alas, I'm jumping out again!"

I was constantly teasing the white pig, and I had a lot of fun, indulging in the repeated horizontal jumping action and couldn't extricate myself.

"Alas! I'm jumping out again! Hit me, stupid! Slightly~"

"Is it fun?"

"Of course it's fun!"

The abrupt conversation made me suddenly realize something.

Did someone ask me a question just now?

When I turned my head, I saw an NPC old man with a raw face smiling and smiling at me with his beard behind my back, and the blue name on his head also indicated his identity.

【Village Chief】

Oh, my God! There is nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it! I haven't been looking for you for a long time and haven't found you! I actually sent it myself!

"You're the village chief? It's really easy for me to look for it, but I haven't seen you all over the village? ”

I was ecstatic and joking, but the village chief just smiled kindly and did not say anything.

"I'm old, I don't like to move around, I often rest and sleep at home, no, I just lay down for a while, I heard movement outside, I thought it was the weasel that had been rampant for a long time and came to the village to steal things again, so I thought about coming out to call someone to catch up, but I saw that I don't know whose second stunned person is so energetic, here hehe smirked."

Belch......

You're just stunned, and your whole family is stunned.

"Village chief, don't make fun of me, I just happened to see you, and the junior has something I want to ask you." As I spoke, I pulled out my sword and showed it to him.

The village chief took the saber and asked with disbelief in his eyes, "How could this sword be on you?"

After that, I told him everything before and after the mission.

But my honesty was exchanged for the helpless ridicule of the village chief, "He and his wife have never had an heir, how can I have any grandson?" If you don't want to say it, you don't have to make up this kind of reason to prevaricate with me. ”

Your sister, why am I making up nonsense to lie to you, I don't bother to add to the unprofitable things, if it wasn't for the old lady mentioning it at the beginning, I wouldn't have known, okay?

"Alas~, this sword was given to them by an exorcist to subdue demons, and it is said to have the divine power to see through the disguise of demons, but it is completely useless to me......" The village chief seemed to remember something from the past, and smiled bitterly to himself.

"Village Chief, is there anything hidden here?" I pressed the village chief about other things.

"Well, since you brought it up, let's talk to you......"

"A thousand years ago, there was a powerful demon near here, this demon is good at the art of change, and likes to feed on the lives of young people, mutilated a lot of passers-by, the imperial city knew about this, so he sent the Heavenly Master of the Protector to come to subdue the demon, and the Heavenly Master sealed it for thousands of years."

"But a month ago, the seal was broken by the demon for some reason, and she saw the light of day again and posed a great threat to the people of the village.

When the village chief said this, his expression overflowed with sadness, and he couldn't help but burst into tears, picked up his sleeve and wiped the corners of his eyes.

"Since then, the demons have disappeared together, but the young people in the village have turned white overnight for some reason, and then they gradually grow old and die one after another, the surviving people think that the demons cursed the village before they died, so they fled to other places with their families, and in the end, only a few of our reluctant old people were left here, and living one day is a day......

That's the end of the village chief's story, but I didn't get any clues that would help the mission except for a good listen, so I can't be asked to go around with my sword to find the source of the curse, right? This is like looking for a needle in a haystack, what should I do?

The village chief sighed, said nothing more, and paced back to the hut where he was resting, leaving me alone and still without thinking.

Hey, it's useless to break my head, so I'll obediently upgrade my level.

"Hey, I'm here, Piggy!"

……

Repeating the sweet plan I had tasted before, I happily quoted it until I could barely catch my breath until the scourge of the white pig puppies in the neighborhood was over.

The experience grid is still a little short, and one more should be enough, and since there is no more farming nearby, I can only make a dozen decisions farther away.

"Tie!"

I picked a white pig that was relatively far away, and with a fierce attack pulled its hatred, and then I quickly got up and ran back, happy like a child who had picked up money.

"Hey, hey, hey! Can't catch up with me, can you? Ahaha...... Oh! ”

I just turned around and laughed at the clumsy pig-killing pig, and I didn't see an old lady suddenly appearing in front of me, and the two of them bumped into each other and fell to the ground.

The white pig that came behind me was struggling to arch my waist plate.

Kicking the angry pig's head away, I jumped back into the fence with a single jump, and then quickly apologized to the NPC old lady on the ground.

"Don't get in the way......," the old lady got up and walked away in a hurry.

I've already taken pictures of the NPCs in the village, but this NPC is very unfamiliar to me, and I thought that she might also have clues like the village chief, so I thought about calling her to consult.

But with an instinctive glance, I made significant progress.

This old lady doesn't have the blue name on her head like the other NPCs, it's just empty.

The old lady moved very quickly, and disappeared without a trace, which made me completely ignore the white pig that I pulled over, and quickly got up and chased after it.

By the time we got around the corner, there was no one at all.

The strange identity and unbelievable behavior have made me very suspicious, and in order to find out, I am going to ask the village chief to find out.

The village chief appeared to my left, walking towards me with the sword in his hand.

"Alas......, take it and look at it, it's just a vain sadness, since it has found you by itself, it means that it has a fate with you, or give it to you, take it to subdue demons and eliminate demons", the village chief handed me back the saber he had just taken, and was about to turn his head and leave with a sad face.

"That's right," the halfway village chief turned around and added, "Don't be stupid to take it to subdue the monster, no monster will stand there stupidly and let you cut it." ”

After finishing speaking, the village chief did not look back and left, standing in the distance and looking at the remnants of the burning clouds in the sky.

It seemed to be a casual instruction, but I suddenly opened my mouth after being blocked for a long time, and the clues that seemed unrelated before gradually emerged in my mind one by one.

"The weasel that has been rampant for a long time has come to steal again"

"I was left with only one child and my grandfather, who was the village chief, to live together"

"He and his wife never had any children"

"This sword is said to have the divine power to see through the disguise of monsters"

"This demon is good at the art of change, and likes to feed on the lives of young people"

"Since then, the demons have disappeared with a trace, but for some reason, the young people in the village have turned white overnight, and then they gradually grow old and die one after another."

And I haven't been able to find the kid and the old lady who confuses me.

The vague thing naturally became an obvious fact.

"I see!"